A
minimum of four ticking time bombs threatens to take down not just the
U.S. but much of the rest of the developed and developing worlds. It
is becoming a question of how much of Western civilization will survive
to see the year 2020.

In
the U.S. these are (in no particular order): (1) the political correctness
time bomb; (2) the Obamacare time bomb; (3) the unemployment / underemployment
time bomb; and (4) the financial markets time bomb. Some would point
to rising Muslim populations and their calls for sharia law to be imposed
on Western cultures a fifth time bomb. There are places in Europe where
this is very possible, although my opinion is that violence by blacks
against whites is the greater danger, in the U.S. at least. Others would
point to the dangers of amnesty for illegal aliens, currently being
pushed through. I don’t think this is a time bomb. While it would
undoubtedly turn the U.S. into a one-party nation as the majority of
the newly legalized aliens would vote for Democrats, one or more of
the other time bombs will go off probably before this has time to happen.

The
political correctness time bomb

The
public response to the George Zimmerman verdict is telling. The jury
members weighed the evidence they were given and found Zimmerman not
guilty. In the days after, I found myself amazed at the number of people
whose reaction implies they know more about Zimmerman’s state
of mind and conduct than that jury. Should we be surprised?

Mainstream
media reported this case dishonestly from the get-go. They regaled television
viewers for weeks on end with a picture of Trayvon Martin as a smiling,
innocent-looking child. The problem: the picture was over five years
old. The insinuation: Zimmerman had murdered this innocent, smiling
little tyke for no reason other than racism. For this he was basically
subjected to a media lynching, even though there isn’t the slightest
reason to believe that the person depicted in that photo is the person
he faced in the street that night.

In
fact, what evidence we have suggests that Martin towered over the slightly
pudgy Zimmerman; forensic reports suggest that Martin was indeed on
top of Zimmerman and pummeling him. The formers hands had marks on them
consist with this; Zimmerman’s hands had no such marks, but his
head and face had numerous lacerations consistent with his claims that
Martin attacked him and was pounding his head against the pavement when
Zimmerman shot him. Zimmerman is guilty of nothing worse than poor judgment;
he disregarded a police dispatcher’s order to stay in his vehicle—but
the dispatcher was not on the scene, and Zimmerman made an on-the-spot
judgment call.

The
U.S. is a cauldron of racial hostility—all the proof one needs
that multiculturalism-by-force does not work. Most of the hostility
is black against white although other ethnic groups can become targets
(media have downplayed the fact that Zimmerman is part Hispanic, and
thus technically a minority himself). Preferential programs of various
sorts—affirmative action for blacks in universities (preferential
admissions, attempts to recruit and preferentially hire black faculty,
etc.), set-asides in industries such as construction—in almost
half a century, none of it has worked. We can argue till we’re
blue in the face over why these programs don’t work;
the bottom line is, they don’t. While the U.S. has produced
black entrepreneurs—a small community that has always existed,
by the way—by and large not only have larger black communities
not budged economically or educationally over the past 40 years, but
the economic dislocations that began in 2008 have probably hurt blacks
more than other groups. For this they blame “whitey.” The
idea that “whitey” is to blame for their problems is now
part of black subculture. A few years ago the idea was floated that
“whitey” owes blacks massive reparations. The idea may not
be dead.

A
lot of blacks saw a guilty verdict against Zimmerman as just one more
entitlement, and took to the streets in large numbers when they didn’t
get it. It is worth noting, however, that a lot of whites took to the
streets as well. There may have been more whites than blacks out there
marching for “justice for Trayvon.” This suggests there
is more to this story than just race. We can see the effects of an ideology
for which facts in evidence, logic, and the rule of law are unimportant.
Zimmerman’s finances are in a shambles, and he can’t work.
He’s a marked man; even his attorney admitted as much. Because
of threats against his life, he wears a bulletproof vest outdoors. His
parents and even his attorney have also received death threats. His
enemies are now unwilling to concede defeat. Those in the grip of ideology
never do. The Justice Department might continue the pursuit, with federal
civil rights charges. George Zimmerman could find himself hounded to
the ends of the Earth until he and his family are broke and their lives
destroyed.

I
hate to say it, but some of us have been warning for over two decades
that this sort of thing could happen. In the late 1980s, Thomas Sowell
argued using a wealth of examples from around the world that government-sponsored
preferences never work. What they do is breed mutual resentment
between preferred and nonpreferred groups. In the U.S. this includes
a worsening of whatever racism affirmative action was supposed to correct
for. The programs don’t work, and the majority group is blamed,
although most whites just want to be left alone. Barriers remain; such
incidences as this raise tensions until they threaten to explode. (Had
Zimmerman been found guilty, street celebrations could still have turned
violent.)

In
1994 I published a book entitled Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong with
Affirmative Action (ICS Press). Few people read it, or probably
even heard of it. In terms of visibility and connections, I’m
not Tom Sowell. I’m also white. As the book argued against one
of the sacred cows of contemporary academia, it probably ended my teaching
job at the time and very nearly cost me my academic career.

Civil
Wrongs made several predictions. It predicted that political correctness
(PC), developed to protect race and gender preferences among other leftist
shibboleths, would spread from college and university campuses to the
every corner of society if it did not face a united and principled opposition.
This came true, as opposition to PC was scattered, poorly organized,
and above all, underfunded. I also predicted (as had Sowell) that the
number of those claiming grievances and demanding protected status would
enlarge until it became the dominant component of the population. This
came true. We saw this the past few days in the number of marchers demanding
“justice for Trayvon.” Homosexuality, moreover, was barely
on the radar screen in 1994. Today it is not just out of the closet
but in our faces, everywhere. It is even spreading, little by little,
to very traditional cultures such as Chile.

I
didn’t predict that we’d see an affirmative action president
in our lifetimes; that seemed a bit much even for me to swallow. But
only a now-dominant affirmative action mindset can explain how a relatively
unknown two-term state senator can literally come from nowhere, leapfrog
over many vastly better qualified people, and get his party’s
nomination, with hardly anyone batting an eyelash; only PC can explain
how he was handled with kid gloves back in 2008 by nearly everyone including
Republicans, although the near-collapse of the economy for which Bush
II was vulnerable doubtless helped. Obama’s empty promises of
“change you can believe in” riveted the poorly educated,
starry-eyed twentysomethings—the Brave New Generation (see here
and here
and here)
who have grown to adulthood never having known a world without PC.

It
was a fraud, of course. Those with real power had little trouble hoodwinking
this generation. Obama is finishing the job Bush II started continuing
his predecessor’s ill-advised wars, starting new ones, furthering
the police state, and protecting the interests of megacorporations and
the superelite behind them. I don’t see how any progressives can
still stand him; he’s sold them down the river as completely as
any unprincipled sociopath.

This
is, of course, independent of the political correctness time bomb—although
there is good
evidence that the Obama regime was involved in the media lynching
of Zimmerman. He once said that Trayvon could have been “his son.”
I don’t think a U.S president has ever involved himself in a domestic
criminal case to this extent—again without anyone batting an eyelash.

There
are now countless hate-driven attacks by blacks on whites, many of them
far more vicious than anything Zimmerman allegedly did to Trayvon Martin.
I could not begin to list them all. Cases like the Wichita
Horror or the torture-murders
of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsome do not garner the kind
of national media attention this case received. Many receive almost
no attention at all, even when the perpetrators are caught and punished.

With
evidence from demographics indicating that the number of whites having
children is falling, while the number of minorities having children
is rising, things do not look good for whites on the racial front, and
one can imagine more and more situations where whites find themselves
in situations like Zimmerman’s and are persecuted (not merely
prosecuted) if they use deadly force in self defense. Could there be
a racial conflagration? Of course there could. One incident where a
group of whites fight back with deadly force, or a court case involving
such that is not decided in a PC fashion, could ignite an explosion
leading to martial law over the affected regions.

The
Obamacare time bomb

The
Obama’s Regime’s singular domestic “accomplishment”
has been the Affordable Health Care Act, which is proving to be anything
but affordable and obviously has almost nothing to do with actual health
care. It was true enough that health care in the U.S. needed fundamental
change; for strictly speaking, the U.S. doesn’t have a health
care system, it has a sick care system—an illness maintenance
system. Sick people spend more money on doctors, hospitals and pharmaceuticals
than healthy people do, feeding corporatism. Obamacare does nothing
to change this. The only thing that would give us a real health care
system is a large scale effort to educate the public about sound nutrition,
the need to stop being couch potatoes and get regular exercise, etc.
There is not a word of actual health promotion in Obamacare, because
that’s not its purpose, which is to centralize sick care, fatten
the profits of both Big Pharma and Big Insurance, and very possibly
find a legal way of dealing with an aging population that will otherwise
eventually break the Medicare and Social Security banks. I don’t
know that Obamacare really creates “death panels” as Sarah
Palin called them. It doesn’t have to. What it will do is use
bureaucracy to cut costs, which will mean triage. It will cut services
by limiting doctor time with patients, limiting treatments for the elderly,
and this will place health care out of the reach of many aging baby
boomers in a deteriorating economy. The “useless eaters”
will be triaged and sent home to die in the care of hapless relatives
if they have any. Meanwhile, the costs of the bureaucracy Obamacare
will create will gradually escalate.

Obamacare
is already proving to be an economic wrecking ball. It is costing jobs
and lowering incomes as companies either lay off employees to get under
the 50 full time employee limit the law establishes, hire only part-time
workers or cut the hours of existing employees to part time; or do not
hire at all. Smaller companies in particular cannot afford the costs
of compliance; some are already closing their doors, meaning that none
of their employees now have jobs! The law creates a ceiling of 30 hours
a week a part-time employee can work. Thus the number of part-time workers
in the U.S. economy has exploded since Obamacare became law.

Those
not presently insured, however, are required by the law to purchase
health insurance through one of the government’s “health
insurance exchanges”—this despite the well-known difficulty
unemployed or marginally employed people have buying food and paying
bills now.

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The
law proposes to use the IRS to penalize those who don’t comply,
which means either money out of their pockets they can’t afford
to spend, or more money out of the pockets of a dwindling number of
taxpayers when the government caves and pays for their health insurance.
The “constitutionality” of Obamacare’s forcing individuals
to purchase private health insurance was upheld by the Supreme Court:
one of its most irrational decisions ever, describing compliance as
a tax, as it is administered by the IRS. Visible refusal to comply with
the IRS can send you to jail, of course. Some refuseniks will end up
as political prisoners if they stand their ground—unless, of course,
one of the other time bombs goes off first and renders Obamacare irrelevant.
For Part two click below.

The public response
to the George Zimmerman verdict is telling. The jury members weighed the
evidence they were given and found Zimmerman not guilty. In the days after,
I found myself amazed at the number of people whose reaction implies they
know more about Zimmerman’s state of mind and conduct than that
jury.